Engel, Kirsten H.; Saleska, Scott R. - 2005
unilateral (as opposed to collective) action by individual countries to restrain despoliation of the global commons is … presumptively irrational. The conventional view flows from Garrett Hardin's classic "Tragedy of the Commons" analysis, in which … commons preservation, though collectively desirable, is economically irrational when undertaken by individuals, hence the …